HAUPPAUGE - Residents in Hauppauge are coming together to help a baby girl born with a rare, incurable disease that makes her skin extremely sensitive.

Makenzie Cadmus was born with a disease called dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, or DEB.

Her mother says that Makenzie suffers from a mutation in the gene that makes collagen 7, a protein. Because of that, her skin blisters at the slightest friction. The 7-month-old has to wear layers of bandages to protect her fragile skin, as well as socks on her hands and feet to cover the bandages.